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In article <1992Dec18.015228.6094@dms.agames.com>, lipson@dms.agames.com (Pete Lipson) writes:
>   if you say:   strncpy(dst,"abcdef",4)
> 
>  does the standard really say you get five characters appended to the
> dst (the chars 'a' 'b' 'c' 'd' AND the '\0') ???

You talk about strncpy, but then you talk about characters being appended;
are you really talking about strncpy() or did you mean strncat()?!?

If you really mean strncpy(), then it should replace the first four
characters of dst with 'a', 'b', 'c', and 'd' with no NUL.

If you mean strncat(), then what you described is exactly right: it
should append at most 4 characters and then add a NUL.
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